the next general election. he ll be live on the sofa at 7:30am. the country s largest supermarket tesco is the latest to impose limits on certain fruit and vegetables, as shortages on the shelves continue. i ll have the latest. england s lionesses roar once more. they thrash belgium to retain the arnold clark cup and are now unbeaten in 29 matches. the cloud and rain across england and wales. all the details here on brick dust. breakfast. it s thursday, 23rd february. our main story. an off duty police officer is in a critical but stable condition after being shot at a sports complex in omagh in county tyrone. the police federation for northern ireland said the shooting happened at around 8 o clock last night while the officer coached young people playing football. our ireland correspondent, emma vardy reports. the shooting happened in front of young players, training at a football coaching session. it s thought the off duty officer was shot multiple times at around 8 o cl
of a school in poland, hoping for refuge in the uk. anya and shelley met through facebook. shelley was looking to help a ukrainian family. they connected immediately. we just wanted to help because we felt that as jewish people, we ve kind of been in a position where we needed help. i felt comfortable when we began, spoke the first time. i don t know how it s feel. as a people, as a country. and i certainly didn t know me, my family. it s unbelievable stories. but it became more unbelievable. as everyone got to know each other better and explored life in london together, anya told shelley about her grandfather, nikolai. during the second world war, he took injewish families, hid them from the nazis, saved their lives. years later, anya s grandfather was awarded a medal by the israeli government
it s got, like, writing. and it says everybody who helps one soul, it s as if they helped the whole world. it was really emotional. it was really, like, special. so yeah, it was just kind of made our story a bit special, but it was still good, whatever, but it was just nice. it was such a. like a circle. anya has recently moved into her own flat nearby, but there are still shared meal times with shelley s family. theirs was a chance encounter. war, fear and kindness brought them together. they now have a deep rooted bond. and do you think this will be a life long friendship for you both? yeah. you re stuck with each other now. yeah, yeah. we re, like, family now. daniela relf, bbc news, north london.
when the homes for ukraine scheme launched last year, a jewish family from london saw a plea for help from a ukrainian woman and her two sons, and decided to welcome them into their home. initially, they thought they were offering support to strangers but have since discovered that the link between their families goes back generations and they have far more in common than they d first realised. daniela relph reports. what shall i do? i m going to do pasta and bolognese. they are moments of serendipity. i ll put the oven on. amazing coincidences amidst the mundane chores of everyday life. for almost a year, anya and her two sons, alex and mark, have lived with shelley bascand and herfamily in north london. i ve run out of small dishes. 0h, here, here. it s here. anya fled her home in ukraine last march. her husband, denis, stayed, as his wife and sons left their comfortable life behind. anya was frightened and desperate, sleeping with her boys on the floor
for his courage honoring him as righteous among the nations. when she told shelley about him, something clicked. when i got the photo of the medal, i looked at it and i thought, i know this. that s so weird. i ve seen this before. it s the medal from that my grandfather produces produced when he was alive. neither woman could quite believe it, but archive records showed shelley s grandfather, moshe hecht, had made the exact medal awarded to anya s grandfather. when my grandfather was alive, he had a factory for metalwork in israel, so he produced medals for people who the israeli government gave medals to. and anya s grandfather, was one of those. it s unbelievable. and when i told my mum and my father, it s no. it s maybe another one. yeah, but it s true.